On Hypocrisy and Self-Protection

A typ­i­cal injunc­tion is that lead­ers should always “walk their talk.” A cost of lead­ing, per­haps, the price of being in a more exposed and influ­en­tial place where the scruti­ny is that much greater. As a cul­ture, we all seemed tuned to search for hypocrisy in oth­er lead­ers, always ready to share a dis­ap­point­ment in… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Hypocrisy and Self-Protection

On Finding Confidence

When it comes to con­fi­dence, no one has an answer that works for every­one. For some the issue becomes being more self-com­­pas­­sion­ate. Oth­ers may see it as a deep­er access to faith. Some may need to explore the many psy­cho­log­i­cal things that have hap­pened to them that cre­at­ed neg­a­tive con­di­tion­ing — aka their voic­es of… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Find­ing Confidence

How to Offer Hope

The oth­er day a friend told me about an orga­ni­za­tion in which those who are con­sid­ered star per­form­ers are explic­it­ly nur­tured, those who are con­sid­ered aver­age are rec­og­nized as doing good work, and those who are not doing so well receive no feed­back at all. This is a planned, offi­cial strat­e­gy, thought-out and based on… Con­tin­ue read­ing How to Offer Hope

Eighth Practice: Spiritual Perspective

For more con­text on this post­ing, please see: The Prac­tice of Lead­er­ship Eight Lead­er­ship Prac­tices First Prac­tice: Know­ing Your Lead­er­ship Edge Sec­ond Prac­tice: Devel­op­ing Your Com­fort Lev­el with Feed­back Third Prac­tice: Car­ing for Self Fourth Prac­tice: Lead­er­ship and Influ­ence Fifth Prac­tice: Dis­cussing Undis­cuss­ables Sixth Prac­tice: On Col­lab­o­rat­ing Sev­enth Prac­tice: Per­son­al Integri­ty Although spir­i­tu­al­i­ty is less dis­cussed as… Con­tin­ue read­ing Eighth Prac­tice: Spir­i­tu­al Perspective